For­mer FI­FA vice pres­i­dent Jack Warn­er is call­ing on mem­ber coun­tries to vote cur­rent pres­i­dent Gi­an­ni In­fan­ti­no out of of­fice, fol­low­ing his ap­par­ent de­ci­sion to in­flu­ence the FI­FA Dis­ci­pli­nary Com­mit­tee to lift a red card sus­pen­sion against Unit­ed States strik­er Fo­lar­in Ba­lo­gun fol­low­ing a di­rect in­ter­ven­tion from US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

Ke­shawn Rod­ney pro­duced a com­mand­ing, un­de­feat­ed per­for­mance to cap­ture the Bil­liards Sports Or­gan­i­sa­tion of T&T’s (BSOTT) Na­tion­al 8-Ball Cham­pi­onship, which con­clud­ed on Sun­day af­ter three days of ex­cit­ing com­pe­ti­tion at the Pyra­mid Sports Bar in Gas­par­il­lo.

​I be­gin to­day’s col­umn on a sad note by ex­press­ing my sin­cer­est con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, friends, col­leagues, ath­letes, and all of Ja­maica at the pass­ing of the leg­endary, pi­o­neer­ing, and vi­sion­ary track and field coach, Stephen Fran­cis.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua — Wrist spin­ner Vi­tel Lawes has earned his maid­en se­nior in­ter­na­tion­al call-up, head­lin­ing the 15-mem­ber Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) squad an­nounced on Tues­day­day for the open­ing three match­es of the up­com­ing five-match One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against New Zealand in Guyana and Bar­ba­dos.

LON­DON, Eng­land – De­spite reach­ing the semi­fi­nals of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, no play­er from the West In­dies Women’s team was se­lect­ed in the Team of the Tour­na­ment.

Aus­tralia stamped its dom­i­nance on glob­al crick­et, se­cur­ing its sev­enth ICC Women’s T20 World Cup ti­tle with a con­vinc­ing sev­en-wick­et de­mo­li­tion of arch-ri­vals Eng­land be­fore a record-break­ing crowd of 28,000 at Lord’s in Eng­land. En route to the fi­nal, they sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly dis­man­tled top-ranked In­dia and South Africa, show­cas­ing a blend of sea­soned vet­er­ans and elite youth primed to ex­tend their glob­al dom­i­nance for years to come.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Un­beat­en half cen­turies from Shai Hope and Justin Greaves have al­lowed West In­dies to claw back in­to the sec­ond Test match against Sri Lan­ka hav­ing been on the back­foot for the first two days of the con­test.

Rough­ly three months ago, my eyes im­me­di­ate­ly lit up when I dis­cov­ered that Capel­li Sport had found a pres­ence at the 2026 FI­FA World Cup through its part­ner­ship with Cape Verde.

Min­is­ter of Sports and Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts is be­ing praised for his role in en­sur­ing that mem­bers of the coun­try’s Un­der-18 and Un­der-23 teams who are sched­uled to rep­re­sent the coun­try at the NACAC Cham­pi­onships be­tween Ju­ly 10-12 in Tlax­cala, Mex­i­co, are giv­en the op­por­tu­ni­ty to do so.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Sri Lan­ka built on their im­pres­sive start by pro­duc­ing an­oth­er ster­ling bat­ting dis­play on the sec­ond day to main­tain their grip over the West In­dies in the sec­ond Test at the end of day two on Sat­ur­day.

The halls of Sa­cred Hearts Girls’ Ro­man Catholic (RC) School were awash in red, white and black Fri­day as stu­dents proud­ly cel­e­brat­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go’s rich foot­ball her­itage with a spe­cial Red Day ob­ser­vance mark­ing the 20th an­niver­sary of the So­ca War­riors’ his­toric FI­FA World Cup de­but.

ST JOHN’S – Lahiru Udara’s stun­ning maid­en Test cen­tu­ry and Ka­min­du Mendis’ sup­port­ing half-cen­tu­ry bat­ted Sri Lan­ka in­to a com­mand­ing po­si­tion against West In­dies on the first day of the sec­ond Test in An­tigua on Fri­day.